Remembering William Henry Hartnell (1908-75), the versatile English stage, film, radio and television actor, born in London on this day. A Shakespearean actor in the late 1920s, his screen career spanned five decades and he appeared, often as authority figures, in a range of British films, including The Dark Tower (1943), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947), Brighton Rock (1948), Double Confession (1950)...

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...Footsteps in the Fog (1955) and Hell Drivers (1957). Immortalised on TV as the first Doctor Who, starring in the iconic BBC show's first four series (1963-66) and returning for 'The Three Doctors' (1972-73).

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